[Carlisle takes that requested moment to figure out what he's going to do. He'd be just fine leaving Shadow to his misery -- it's not as though there's much he can do about poisons except alleviate their symptoms, and only a little, at that.
But that wouldn't help that guilty feeling in his gut that he gets when he considers he once robbed Shadow of his free will, and when the hedgehog was trying to protect him, albeit in a way that Carlisle didn't approve of. He sighs. The bear sitting outside the closet door hears that, and groans in tandem. He'd help alleviate Carlisle's stress if he knew how. It might help, of course, if he wasn't a bear, the animal of which Carlisle is the most terrified.
But he is, and so Carlisle is trapped in the closet of his apartment, unwilling to open the door and let the bear in. It's not nearly as much distance as he'd like from the creature, but at least the door keeps him from seeing it. It also keeps him from reaching Shadow, though. Ah, but who does he know who could help Shadow? Who is friends with him, even? That's right -- Kate.]
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But that wouldn't help that guilty feeling in his gut that he gets when he considers he once robbed Shadow of his free will, and when the hedgehog was trying to protect him, albeit in a way that Carlisle didn't approve of. He sighs. The bear sitting outside the closet door hears that, and groans in tandem. He'd help alleviate Carlisle's stress if he knew how. It might help, of course, if he wasn't a bear, the animal of which Carlisle is the most terrified.
But he is, and so Carlisle is trapped in the closet of his apartment, unwilling to open the door and let the bear in. It's not nearly as much distance as he'd like from the creature, but at least the door keeps him from seeing it. It also keeps him from reaching Shadow, though. Ah, but who does he know who could help Shadow? Who is friends with him, even? That's right -- Kate.]
Where are you? I'll need your location.